Indeed, Ollie. Ron, you're a bit of a master o' the lens. 

Funny you should ask that, Daniel: actually, no.

But the reason for chosing the location in the first place was indeed to get a very different view of my trees, though in the event my lens was summoned to the more interesting prospect first assayed here. However, I did take a couple of shots of them, and here's one where they're virtually dead-centre, with Craigowl, the local 'Big Hill', looming behind. It's just nothing like as good an image as what I ended up taking, which was from exactly the same position, but panning about 90 degrees to the left. (You can just glimpse Craigowl in the distance at the back right of the third picture, too, which was taken rather further west, towards Pitmues.)

Mary,
I look at Ron Dough's pictures and I see that our earth is so beautiful. Beauty and admiration makes me feel better and better. Our small human problems are not so important in the wide skim of things.
I am blessed to be able to see this world and to be able to learn more about it. Human activity is one aspect of the world, but not the most important in this vast universe.

I can't help noticing though,t-p, that much of the beautiful landscape in Ron's pictures is actully man-made, or at least, influenced and controlled by human activity. Those picturesque patchwork fields with their different colour crops and their miles of neat hedges - all artificial really! But beautiful nonetheless.

cool, london is nice to visit, i myself would not like to live there, ok to visit

my world will get bigger when i move onto that motorhome

All interesting posts. I'm actually not far at all from North Wales, so there are mountains. I'm not far from the sea either, which I love, but what I like best is the sort of man-made agricultural landscape that Ron shows.

Milly - where you live is beautiful, but I'd imagine it's a bit limited in a musical way?

It's only mild envy. I don't truly want to live in real country - it's too inconvenient, especially for someone like me who doesn't drive. I used to live in London and adored it, but I don't think I'd like it now unless I were very rich indeed. London and real country are ideal for visits!

Who was it who defined real country as being "12 miles from a lemon"? I think that every time I'm in Norfolk.

It's probably not much different from where I live, then, Milly - I have Liverpool and Manchester not too far away (though I only go to Manchester by car now -  I used to go on public transport quite cheerfully), and Chester has some good concerts too. I get frustrated by the fact that we rarely get the very top performers, though - and ballet and opera does tend to be the run-of-the-mill classics which I've seen a million times. I can't imagine how often Swan Lake has been performed in Liverpool! Manchester is the best place - two orchestras, or three if you count the Camerata -  the RNCM, the Bridgewater Hall, and a wonderful theatre at the Lowry. Liverpool has had the occasional gem like Mark Padmore in Jephtha -  and more to come in Capital of Culture ( a misnomer if ever there was one) year. Berlin Phil, anyone?

A very brief happy noise from this node of the network; I managed to persuade my beloved to leave the house today (albeit with bribery)